RUSSIA PREPARING FOR WAR – Mass Surprise War Games in Response to Nato Drills. Coming WW3?

RUSSIA PREPARING FOR WAR – Mass Surprise War Games in Response to Nato Drills. Coming WW3?

Russia launches ‘mass surprise drill’ war games in response to Nato exercise after deputy PM jokes that ‘our tanks don’t need visas’ Russia and Nato have launched rival military exercises in the latest sign of rising military tensions in eastern and central Europe. About 250 aircraft and 12,000 servicemen will take part in Russian combat readiness drills over the Urals mountains and Siberia in what the country’s defence ministry has described as a “massive surprise inspection.”

The snap exercises launched yesterday involving aviation and air defence forces in Russia’s central military district began on the same day Nato launched its own long-planned exercises in the Arctic.

The two-week exercise will involve forces from Germany, Britain, France, the Netherlands and the United States, as well as non-Nato allies Finland, Sweden and Switzerland. The comment came in response to a question about US and EU sanctions, which have imposed visa bans on several prominent Russian politicians and businessmen accused of involvement in the Ukraine crisis, including Mr Rogozin. Russia has recently intensified snap checks of its military might, testing its capabilities from the Arctic to the Far East as relations with the West have plunged to a post-Cold War low over the Ukraine crisis. The road leads to a quiet border crossing typically only used by local residents. On the other side is Ukraine’s Luhansk region, which is controlled by separatists and has been the scene of intense fighting.

She said the information came from the mother of a serviceman stationed in the town of Totskoye, in the Orenburg region near Russia’s border with Kazakhstan. Russia has imposed an entry ban on 89 European politicians and military leaders, in a move that has angered Europe and worsened the country’s standoff with the west over the Ukraine conflict. The list, which includes former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg and former defence secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind, was reportedly compiled by the Russian foreign ministry and handed to an EU delegation in Moscow this week. Since Russia annexed Crimea in March 2014, the EU has imposed economic sanctions, visa bans and asset freezes on scores of Russian and Ukrainian citizens and organisations. Russia and China are prime targets – the only nations able to challenge America militarily, economically, and/or politically. Washington pressuring Japan and other Asian nations against China shows what Beijing faces. So does America’s planned increased regional military presence. Russian television has reported that 5,000 new emergency nuclear bomb shelters were scheduled to have been completed in the city of Moscow alone by the end of 2012 Russia is capable of building its own equivalent of Mistral-class helicopter carrier equipped with nuclear power engines as Moscow is aware of the design of the French-made ship, deputy chairman of the Russian State Duma’s Committee on Industry Vladimir Gutenev told RIA Novosti. In a secret project reminiscent of the chilliest days of the cold war, Russia is building a mammoth underground military complex in the Ural Mountains, Western officials and Russian witnesses say.